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Robert Frederick Hoke (1837-1912) of Lincolnton, N.C., served in the Confederate Army,
attaining a rank of major general. After the war, Hoke was engaged in various business
enterprises, including gold and iron mining, insurance, and railroads. He served as
director of the North Carolina Railroad Company for many years. The collection consists of business correspondence of and papers about the military
career of Robert F. Hoke. Volumes are letterpress copy books, 1870-1875 and 1888-1898,
of letters written from Raleigh and Lincolnton, N.C., Atlanta and Athens, Ga., and
Chester, S.C., concerning railroad, manufacturing, mining, and farming interests,
and Hoke's resort and bottled water company at Lithia Springs, Lincoln County, N.C.
There are no Civil War-era manuscripts. The papers other than volumes are chiefly
postwar business letters received by Hoke, and manuscripts and clippings of speeches
and articles by others, all dealing with Hoke's military career.

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as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Robert F. Hoke Papers #1121, Southern Historical
Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Van Wyck Hoke of Yanceyville, N.C., in June 1946; from Mrs. William
D. Pollock of Wilson, N.C., in September 1954 and April 1958; and from Mrs. Michael
Hoke of Highlands, N.C., in June 1955.

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Robert Frederick Hoke (27 May 1837-3 July 1912) of Lincolnton, N.C., was the son of
Michael and Frances Burton Hoke. He attended school in Lincolnton and was graduated
from the Kentucky Military Institute in 1854. Upon completing his education, Hoke
returned home to manage various family business interests, including a cotton mill
and iron works, for his widowed mother.

Hoke entered the Confederate Army as a second lieutenant in the 1st North Carolina
Volunteers and later served with the 23rd, 33rd, and 21st regiments of North Carolina
troops. He fought in battles and aided defenses at Big Bethel, Va.; New Bern, N.C.;
Hanover Court House, Richmond, second Manassas, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville,
Va., where he was severely wounded; Plymouth, N.C.; Drewry's Bluff, Cold Harbor, and
Petersburg, Va.; and Fort Fisher, Wilmington, Kinston, and Bentonville, N.C. Hoke
had attained the rank of major general by the time he participated in the surrender
of Confederate forces to General William T. Sherman at Bennett's Farm House near Durham,
N.C.

After the war, Hoke was engaged in various business enterprises, including gold and
iron mining, farming, insurance, and railroads. He served as director of the North
Carolina Railroad Company for many years. Hoke was an Episcopalian and a Democrat.

Hoke was married to Lydia Van Wyck and with her had six children.

Adapted from an entry for Robert Frederick Hoke by John G. Barrett in
Dictionary of North Carolina Biography (UNC Press, 1988), edited by William S. Powell.

The collection consists of business correspondence of and papers about the military career of North Carolina industrialist and Confederate officer Robert F. Hoke. Volumes are letterpress copy books, 1870-1875 and 1888-1898, of letters written
from Raleigh, N.C., and Lincolnton, N.C., Atlanta, Ga., and Athens, Ga., and Chester, S.C., concerning railroad, manufacturing, mining, and farming interests, and Hoke's resort and bottled water company at Lithia Springs, Lincoln County, N.C. There are no Civil War-era manuscripts. The papers other than volumes are chiefly
postwar business letters received by Hoke, and manuscripts and clippings of speeches
and articles by others, all dealing with Hoke's military career.